Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-21
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER s1.
The Chine Sc in Eastern Cities.

WEDNESDAY,. SEPIEMBEh Sis
The Chinese in Eastern Cities.
When this State, groaning under
the weight of the Chinese curse, went
before the east with plea for relief,
we were met everywhere with a cal
lous indifference which arose from an
utter misapprehension on the part OF
those who knew nothing about the
Mongol and his habits. The Ameri-
can people could not be persuaded
that there was any race whose prelu-
dices, customs and habits would not
give way before the light of our insti-
tutions. If the Chinese would not as
simulate with us the fault was with
Californians; and it must be the fell
lows of the baser sort who objected to
the "little brown man," SO "childlike
and bland" 1t was the hoodlums
who objected to the Chinaman. Such
was the reasoning Of people at the
east.
All things are possible to him that
can wait. In due time the Chinaman
and his habits, with his clog shoes,
wide-legged garments, pig-tail, opium
pipe, and fan-tan game found his way
to these eastern cities. The people OF
New York and Boston opened their
arms to welcome the conner from far
Cathay. The girls of the Sunday
Schools invited "John" home with
them, and let themselves loose in an
abandon of delight, blowing soap bub-
bles and what not with the mild and
tractable heathen, who was to be made
q Christian in jify. When the
disciple of Confucius came in contact
with these good people, he would at
once doff his strange garments, cut OH
his queue, cast aside his idols and
one-stringed fiddle, his opium pipe
and all other denominations of his
heathenism and take to Christian
morality and clothes like duck to
water. John has been at the East,
under the influences of our good breth-
ern there for many year. He is in
Chicago thousand strong, and he is
in New York and Brooklyn ten thou
sand strong. In the slang of the day,
"He does not convert worth cent p
Butexperience is opening the eyes OF
the people who formerly took the part
of the Chinese. Philadelphia got
Chinatown Gin her midst" and the
dose has been too much for the Qua
ker stomach. There are opium joints
and fan-tan, and cellars four stories
below ground reeking with filth, phys
ical and m oral. The youth of the city
of ''Brotherly Love" finds its way to
Chinatown-for was not "John man
and a brother, too?" The Mongol
was very slow to learn the cate
chism, long or short, presented
for his distinguished consideration.
in the Sunday School; but the Chris
tan youth he lured to his den soon
got a decided taste for opium, and
other innocent innovations Of All Sin.
In one day Philadelphia arrested
of their mild pets for dis
orderly conduct. The people of the
East found the innocent Mongol in
the shape of a high-binder was a hired
assassin OF the most bloody type.
They found he had set up in the land
an imperium IN imperio, held his own
tribunals in secret, and defied the laws
of the country. John and his habits
create nuisance most dangerous to
health, and when the Health Officer
tries to enforce the ordinance, therein
provided, all Chinatown rises up
in arms to resist the Off
Ger. There is a riot in
the place, and the meek little "brown
man" is holy terror. The highbind-
ers made away with lot of witnesses
wanted in Chinese case before New
York court. This is the way the Her
aid of that city speaks OF it:
There is growing up in New York a
so convert in its habits, so
so utterly foreign, and
in many respects bitterly hostile, to
the rest of the city, that the investi-
cation of crime is becoming almost
impossible. That there are several
strong secret societies in Mott street is
: fact beyond dispute. The purpose OF
these organizations is generally an
by Cinnamon to be benevo-
jent and charitable. Yet the officers
and leaders of the societies always
come to the front to defend Chinese
and never, no matter how
eowardly or fiendish the crime may
he. assist the police to information.
So,ne OF the leaders are said to be di-
rectors of vast systems of oppression
md bIackmail, and it is said that a
had better jump into the
Ia than incur their enmity. Such
.ases as have been tried already in
he New York courts have revealed in
he evidence wholesale feuds, the